INDEX. 



349 



Packing fish in ice, 224, 226, 240 



,, quality of fish impaired by, 224 

 Papers read at Conferences, object and value of, 172 

 Paper read by Captain Temple, 156 

 Parasites or trichinae in fash, 29, 31 



Passenger steam and sailing ships, boats provided for, 201 

 Pasteur, 220 



Patagonia, 159, 161, 167, 170 

 Pera, flood and draughts in, 267 

 Perch, 21 



Perniss fishing-port. See Fishing-ports. 

 Persons employed in fish trade, 308 

 Peterhead herring fishery,*94, 121, 137 

 Phoenicians, tunnies caught in ancient times by the, 247 

 Piers and harbours, list of application for grants in aid for the improvement or 



construction of, 92-94 

 Pike, 21 



Piling of fish objectionable, 224, 228 

 Plaice, 7, 20, 315-317, 327 

 Plane, 271 



Plants purify impure water, 45 

 Plinio, Caio, 247 

 Pliny, on the enormous quantities of tunnies caught by the Phoenicians, 



247 



Poisonous materials, evils attached to the use of, 252 

 Pollack, 21 

 Pond carp, 82 

 Poplar, 271 

 Pork (fat), 6, 12 



Portable life-saving appliances, 210, 214 

 Port Famine, 163 

 Potatoes, II 

 Practical cookery, 23-28 



Precarious nature of seal-hunter's calling, 161, 164, 165 

 Preparations for preservation of nets, 124 



,, for transmission offish from fishing grounds to markets, 127, 128 

 Prescriptive rights, 67, 68 

 Preservation by retardation, 221, 222, 223, 240 



,, duration of, 223, 228 



,, speedy cooling required, 223, 228 



,, must be continuous, 225, 228 



,, offish, effects of temperature, 221, 222 



,, metal trays, 223 



,, necessity of cleanliness, 222 



,, refrigerating cars important, 225 



Preservation of sealskins, 163 



Preserving of fish, Government aid towards technical education of, 136 

 " President," loss of the, 200 



